The first story in the Safe and Sound series. Why is Jim Kirk the womanizing, hard-drinking guy that we know and love? What if Jim had found the girl already and had lost her? Will he get her back? Starts as a Tarsus IV fiction. Does contain language and suggestions of abuse. For mature readers only

What if Spocks scream was the connection of his bond-mate breaking, feeling his T'hy'la's life slip away and not being able to touch him? That all there was between them was the mere centimetres of the glass?